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I wonder what's the competitive advantage of POWER in terms of cost/performance compared with x86 (And sure they have their mainframes, but POWER seems to be t

I wonder what's the competitive advantage of POWER in terms of cost/performance compared with x86 (And sure they have their mainframes, but POWER seems to be the 'middle of the road' solution from them - at least in cost) Or it's mostly about "this IBM solution only runs under Linux or AIX in POWER6)

brucethemoose2 4y ago
Their biggest chips are, SMT, memory and interconnect heavy. Seems like they would be quite competitive in memory-bound database loads. But the big thing with POWER is that its open source. Generally, whatever virtues apply to RISC-V apply to POWER as well.